After testing in Vbox. I think I going to "X" fluxbox off the list. I don't like how the "start menu" works and how right click on the desktop is.

Now for LXDE or Xfce I could go ether way. What's faster? What makes one better then the other?

Actually I'd recommend using a dock for Fluxbox if you hate the rightclick root menu. Although finding a low-resource AND attractive dock is quite difficult, you can try tweaking XFCE or LXDE's panel into one.

Personally found XFCE has the best balance vs performance when compared to using Main Ed/Gnome & Fluxbox.

So you suggest the best would be Fluxbox? Does it install the same as normal Mint? My current setup with Mint 9 eats my CPU sometimes 100% that's why I would need the lightest distro there is. My config is Celeron D 3,06 GHz, 2 GB DDR RAM, nVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB and Mint 9 consumes 100% CPU at times. And, is Fluxbox able to run Win games via Wine normally?

Inoki wrote:So you suggest the best would be Fluxbox? Does it install the same as normal Mint? My current setup with Mint 9 eats my CPU sometimes 100% that's why I would need the lightest distro there is. My config is Celeron D 3,06 GHz, 2 GB DDR RAM, nVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB and Mint 9 consumes 100% CPU at times. And, is Fluxbox able to run Win games via Wine normally?

You have a good spec'd machine and I'd believe Linux Mint 9 Main Edition or KDE would suffice for your system unless you plan on lowering RAM consumption by using XFCE/LXDE/Fluxbox.

You may need to tweak your wine via winetricks to be able to run somegames (basically winetricks is quite similar to Synaptic Package Manager except it download and install windows related patches (eg: I can't run Irfanview unless I use winetricks to install MFC42.dll)

Also I found that 100% cpu consumption to be quite suspicious. You may want to try throttling the processor down (used to install a Gnome applet that lowers another laptop's CPU from 1.6Ghz to 800Mhz). In addition you may want to look into existing bugs related to that problem

Inoki wrote:So you suggest the best would be Fluxbox? Does it install the same as normal Mint? My current setup with Mint 9 eats my CPU sometimes 100% that's why I would need the lightest distro there is. My config is Celeron D 3,06 GHz, 2 GB DDR RAM, nVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB and Mint 9 consumes 100% CPU at times. And, is Fluxbox able to run Win games via Wine normally?

You have a good spec'd machine and I'd believe Linux Mint 9 Main Edition or KDE would suffice for your system unless you plan on lowering RAM consumption by using XFCE/LXDE/Fluxbox.

You may need to tweak your wine via winetricks to be able to run somegames (basically winetricks is quite similar to Synaptic Package Manager except it download and install windows related patches (eg: I can't run Irfanview unless I use winetricks to install MFC42.dll)

Also I found that 100% cpu consumption to be quite suspicious. You may want to try throttling the processor down (used to install a Gnome applet that lowers another laptop's CPU from 1.6Ghz to 800Mhz). In addition you may want to look into existing bugs related to that problem

Thank you for the advice. I did install the nVIDIA drivers from the driver package. It prompted me to install immediately after I installed Mint. So it shouldn't be the drivers. I use the recommended ones.

Yep... but it's a 4-5 year old mac. A dinosaur by today's standards;)In my daily usage (I have no bench marks), I didn't see a whole lot of difference on the Mac between Gnome, Fluxbox, XFCD, LXDE, (and yes KDE). Were they all slow? or were they all fast enough? I don't know. But since it's a Mac I went with a full DE. I felt like I was missing something otherwise. That being said, I'm running PeppermintOS on an AMD Athlon X2 5000 (5-6 years old). PeppermintOS (LXDE and PAE kernel) kinda steps out of the way while I run an XP VM. That is, it does seem lighter in the case of the constant load on the system a VM puts. I did replace OpenBox with Metacity so I can fully enjoy the Nimbus theme on it;)-Hinto

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."-Abraham Lincoln

Personally I don't think I would use any of them. I think you would be better off with a real lightweight like Crunchbang Lite [url](http://crunchbanglinux.org/)[/url]. I have an old machine like yours and it is the only thing I can run on it, none of the Mint versions work (nor anything else for that matter). However my machine only has half the ram that yours has so you may get more mileage from Mint than I do on old hardware.

I think on real old hardware, you're gonna be waiting quite a while for that liveCD to boot (or the usb 1.0 drive to boot). I did get Puppy to run on a Pentium 200mmx, but it took a while. (due to the aforementioned reasons)-Hinto

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."-Abraham Lincoln